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e_Marketing Blog Another Source of Free Marketing Products We're adding new free marketing products to the Linknet Marketing Forum everyday. The Linknet Marketing Forum has free resources available on: Check out the Linknet Marketing Forum. New Video Marketing Blogs For the sake of keeping things straight and becoming more focused I've reorganized a couple of my blogs. Here's where you'll find future posts on specific niches we cover: SEO Strategy and SEO Techniques Joint Venture Seeker from Liz Tomey If you're on any of those guru's mailing lists you've probably seen several major product launches over the last few months. These things can be wildly successful (if you can believe the numbers), and that's because a whole bunch of marketers get together with their friends and associates and promote the launch to their respective lists. These launches are called "Joint Ventures". The commissions offered to JV partners are big - often from 50%-80%, so there is a major incentive to promote the heck out of these products. Marketers like Liz Tomey have proven that Joint Ventures are not just for the big guys. There's actually room for "the little guy"... especially those that want to move up the ranks. Liz herself is one heck of an example. Her very first JV (for the first product she ever created) brought in $37,000 in just two weeks... ok, so it's not a million bucks, but it's not something to shake a stick at, either! She describes that launch as "life changing," as it would be for just about anyone. Both she and her husband were able to stay at home with their 5 kids... and it literally set the foundation for their whole business. Quite a story, huh? That's why I wanted to check out Liz's product called Joint Venture Seeker, to see if it sheds any light on JVs. Liz is surprisingly straightforward and candid in her presentation. In fact, what I found was something rare... a series of video tutorials (10 of them!) that take you through the entire process of planning, getting, and carrying out JVs... step by step! Liz speaks from experience, and it shows. She's worked with most of the top people in the industry - and even got 8 of them to share their top secrets in a series of hard-hitting interviews - all recorded in these videos. Liz even includes the transcripts free of charge... along with an incredible batch of bonuses that I actually loved reading. Liz has also put together detailed workbooks that go along with the course, so you never feel like you're lost. I actually picked up quite a few tips - stuff that I hadn't thought of in our own JV process that I'm sure will dramatically improve our results. The price of these videos is surprisingly low when you consider the impact they could make on your marketing efforts. Using Joint Ventures boils down to this: you can harness the power and endorsements of several other successful marketers who promote your product to their very large and loyal lists. There is no faster or easier way to kick start your internet business than by using Joint Ventures, and Liz's videos offer an awesome step by step guide to making the most of them. Here's a link for you: Liz Tomey Joint Venture Seeker Videos Just one more point... I especially like Liz's advice for people who have no list... she did her first JV before she had a list, so she knows what she's talking about! |
SBO-Linknet.com is the home of the Linknet Publishing Network. This is a growing network of active websites covering various areas of interest from Online Marketing to Golf to Personal Health and Real Estate. Quark or Photoshop for Large Format Design?Apr 10, 2006 - Linknet Product News Quark or PhotoShop for Your Large Format Design? Apr 10, 2006 - Linknet Products - by Rick HendershotWhen you are creating large graphics for printing on trade show displays or large vinyl banners for backdrops and display areas, is it better to assemble your graphics in a page layout program like Quarkxpress, or should you do them all as one image in Photoshop or some similar program? Here are a couple important considerations... Consideration #1 - Flexibility and Ease of Design Those of us used to doing print advertising -- things like brochures, posters, and magazine ads -- have traditionally assembled our projects in a page layout program like Quark (or Indesign, PageMaker, and sometimes CorelDraw). This kind of program makes it possible to prepare separate elements in Photoshop or Illustrator or Coreldraw, and then import them into position in the page layout program (Quark) and then integrate them with text of various sizes, faces and alignments. This approach is particularly useful when your document has lots of text -- like a brochure for instance. The text handling capabilities of these page layout programs are outstanding. They are much, much more powerful than a program like Microsoft Word. You can take individual blocks of text and control their properties independently of any other blocks of text on the page. Then you can lay them on top of other layers, overprint the text on top of photos, or even knock it out in red or white (or any other color you can think of). For large display designs text handling is not as important as file size and the ability to easily make adjustments to your final design. Often last minute changes will require you to tweak your design. In many cases the file has already been sent to the printing company. If a simple text change has to be made they are quite capable of making it for you. They don't have to go back to some previous verions of the file to move something around or change a phone number. They just open the Quark file and make an adjustment to that particular element.  This approach also minimizes the overall file size. For instance, if you want to create a design like the one above -- "Orange Hair Girl" -- the overall file size can be minimized by just sending a .jpg of the girl pic along with the Quark file that contains the special text and the layout. On the other hand, if you use Photoshop to create a .jpg of the whole layout and send that to your printing house, the file will be at least three times larger. And if you want to make any text or positioning changes to your image file, you will have to dig out the last good version of the Photoshop file, make your changes and then resave it as a final image file. Quark is clearly the winner in such situations. Consideration #2 - Special Effects On the other hand, you may not be able to easily pull your design off with Quark. For instance I have started using a lot of special text effects generated right in Photoshop -- bevels, shadows, outlines -- Sometimes these effects are very helpful when trying to make your text stand out against certain backgrounds. Here's an example...  You just can't do these type effects in a program like Quark. If you want to merge shadows and fades right into photographic backgrounds you pretty much have to use layers and then merge them into a single image. In this case your best bet is to send a high quality jpg of the file, and keep the .psd file handy in case you have to make any last minute changes. If you do, then make them at your end, and send another jpg. Rick Hendershot publishes Linknet News.
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